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Tech at Night: Free Press under pressure, Cyberterrorists get arrested, Same old FCC

Free Press is getting the heat. It’s been exposed through FOIA that the far left front group was secretly coordinating media strategy with people at the FCC, including Commissioner Michael Copps. So when Copps makes a statement about media regulation, Free Press’s pet issue, I have to assume they wrote it for him. Media Reform is their code for nationalization of the press, after all.

Desperation mounts in the war against AT&T. The left now cannibalizes its own, as left-on-left violence targets those left-wing groups who have not come out in favor of big government intrusion into the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Apparently NAACP, GLAAD, and the NEA have no problem with the merger, and that’s angering radicals. Not that the Sunlight Foundation is among those injecting itself into the debate, the next time someone tries to tell you I’m all wet and the group has no left-wing bias.

Note also that Politico carries water for the angry lefties by publishing this story, while failing to mention all the money spent by Sprint, wealthy foundations and others against this deal, and on other extremist causes.

You may have heard that AT&T lost at the FCC this week. It had nothing to do with wireless Internet. This is about voice calling and local telephone service. No worries.

Bad news down in Texas. Even as ATR has put out a letter urging Texas to strip the Amazon Tax, singling out Internet firms for special taxation, from SB 1 in the special session of the legislature, the House holds firm. Governor Perry already vetoed this garbage once. There’s something inappropriate about tacking it on as a rider to another bill immediately after that.

What we do seem to know though is that Google has apparently made peace with non-Neutral ISPs, since Google CEO Larry Page may be “open minded” about making special deals with France Telecom to get priority access to the ISP’s customers, if I read this Reuters report correctly.